When you create a new site design, you should always remember a few key points. If you don’t, not only is it bad for search engines, but also visitors.
eCommerce Site Design: What do you Really Think?
Site design is a primary determinant in online shopping.
Design, Trust, and Peekaboo
I always liked that line, “If you want to capture someone’s attentionwhisper.” It makes you stop and think for a minute. Another line I swore was my personal tagline in my dating years was, “Once bitten, twice shy.” Both of these can be applied to user centered web design.
eCommerce Design: A Three Second Impression
“We find that Web sites have three seconds to make an impression.” – Jeff Rosenblum, Questus
Good Design And Good Graphics
One persistant annoyance to me is when people look at a site, and declare it as poorly designed’, when the only problem with said site is that it may not have the most professional-looking’ graphics, or perhaps it doesn’t quite have the right Web-2.0′ appeal. I have news for you: Good design has *nothing* to do with pretty graphics.
Design, SEO, and Usability Laws?
You read and hear it all the time. Somebody tells you to do something a certain way because it’s the only correct way.
User Performance Design
Last week on the Cre8PC blog Kim Krause Berg mentioned two new usability documents released by Larry Constantine. The post led me to one of Larry’s older documents entitled Beyond User-Centered Design and User Experience: Designing for User Performance, which I have just recently read. The previous link will take you to a page where you can download the PDF.
Design Incompetence
Watch out, cat post coming!
Website Design: Welcome The White Space
Individuals who are new to website development will often compartmentalize the web page and fill every available space with either text or graphics.
Homophily and Social Software Design
Nat Torkington has a great post on homophily and social software design.